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. 2014 Apr 4;23(3):263–270. doi: 10.1017/S2045796014000183

Table 2.

Public attitudes towards involuntary admission of people with mental illness to a psychiatric hospital 1993 and 2001 (multinomial logit regression)

Predicted percentages
Response category 1993 (N=2094) % 2011 (N = 427) % Changea (95% C.I.)
Do you think that a mentally ill person should, under certain conditions, be admitted to a hospital, even if it is against his will? Or are you principally against that?b Under certain conditions in favour 74 71 −3 (−8,2)
Principally against 13 14 1 (−2,5)
Don't know 13 15 2 (−2,6)

aDue to rounding figures shown will not always equal the difference between predicted probabilities for 1993 and 2011.

bIn both surveys, only the male wording was used.